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The Poetics of Space in The Alexandria Quartet.
Malý, Lukáš ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Pokorný, Martin (referee)
Poetics of space in The Alexandria Quartet is created by multilevel structures. This poetics is closely connected to the main space of the story - Alexandria, which is at the same time one of the novel's topics. Each level is suggested in connection to various theoretical conceptions which are subsequently used for my own analysis. Alexandria is initially an aesthetic coulisse of the story which is portrayed by descriptive passages. Strongly subjective and lyrical descriptions of the city establish overall impression of the story and potentially support reader's experiential illusion. Alexandria and its specificity is further modulated and thematised by its special macroscopic conditions which border Alexandria as an autonomous fictional space with its own rules within the novel's fictional world. Part of poetics of the space in this novel is also portraying spatio-temporal aspect of the reality (chronotope) no only on the level of the story, but also on the level of storytelling. Alexandria is further explicit rhetoric and also through semantic indexation personified and enters semantic relations with the main characters and events. Each level is complementary to another and all are part of the semantic gesture of the novel. Alexandria becomes a separate symbol, mythical entity which importance is...
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The Country House Revisited: Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst
Topolovská, Tereza ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Franková, Milada (referee) ; Nagy, Ladislav (referee)
This dissertation aims to provide an insight into English country house fiction by twentieth and twenty-first century authors, such as E.M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Iris Murdoch, Alan Hollinghurst, and Sarah Waters. The variety of literary depictions of the country house reflects the physical diversification of the buildings in question, from smaller variants to formerly grand residences on the brink of physical collapse. The country house is explored within the wider social and cultural contexts of the period, including contemporary architectural development. Given the exceptionally evocative and integrating properties that the influential theories of Martin Heidegger and Gaston Bachelard attribute to a house in general, it is unsurprising that the concept of the country house has inspired discussion of such a wide spectrum of topics. Its unique centring quality is echoed in the dense intertextuality prominently marking its literary representations, and enables the successful implementation of various temporal idiosyncrasies, which often set the house apart from the habitual passing of time. Within the scope of contemporary fiction, architecture and poetics of space, the country house accentuates different conceptions of dwelling. Consequently, the literary portrayals of the country house can be...
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The Poetics of Space in The Alexandria Quartet.
Malý, Lukáš ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Pokorný, Martin (referee)
Poetics of space in The Alexandria Quartet is created by multilevel structures. This poetics is closely connected to the main space of the story - Alexandria, which is at the same time one of the novel's topics. Each level is suggested in connection to various theoretical conceptions which are subsequently used for my own analysis. Alexandria is initially an aesthetic coulisse of the story which is portrayed by descriptive passages. Strongly subjective and lyrical descriptions of the city establish overall impression of the story and potentially support reader's experiential illusion. Alexandria and its specificity is further modulated and thematised by its special macroscopic conditions which border Alexandria as an autonomous fictional space with its own rules within the novel's fictional world. Part of poetics of the space in this novel is also portraying spatio-temporal aspect of the reality (chronotope) no only on the level of the story, but also on the level of storytelling. Alexandria is further explicit rhetoric and also through semantic indexation personified and enters semantic relations with the main characters and events. Each level is complementary to another and all are part of the semantic gesture of the novel. Alexandria becomes a separate symbol, mythical entity which importance is...
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The poetics of space in the fairy tales of the Grimm brothers and in the selected fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben
Ledinská, Šárka ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Vaněk, Václav (referee)
The poetics of space is a very interesting field, which has been so far marginalized from the theoretic point of view in comparison with other types of the poetics of literary work. Fragmentary information devoted to this theme has often been hidden in theoretic works that applied the poetics of space to some specific literary works. To be able to start focusing myself on the poetics of space in fairy tales, I had to lay the basis for the poetics of space in the first part of my thesis. The basis is built by the chapters in which I was concerned with the poetics of literary work and where I collected, organized and made transparent actual theoretic information about the poetics of space and its parts, space and place. I used these chapters for the specification of the terms used in my thesis. That specification enabled me to focus on the poetics of space in the fairy tales in the second part of thesis. As my research material I chose Grimms' fairy tales and eight Erben's fairy tales. I used this material to verify the relevance of particular hypotheses. In terms of my research I concerned on topics such as the poetics of space from the wider and the closer point of view, the boundaries of the fairy tales' space, the description and the layout of the space, the main and the side character in the...
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Poetics of Space in Durych´s Novel Boží duha and Körner´s Short Novel Adelheid
KRLÍN, Jan
This thesis deals with poetics of space in books Boží duha (God?s Rainbow) and Adelheid. Both these works are outstanding in contrast with the previous writings. Especially Boží duha, that was written in the first half of the fifties, sharply contrasts with the writings that had emerged earlier. Both Boží duha and Adelheid deal with the issue of expulsion of Germans from the Czech borderland. The issue of expulsion has been dealt with immediately after the World War II in the novel Dům na zeleném svahu (House on a Green Hillside) by Anna Sedlmayerová. The task of Germans is depicted negatively, but besides the enthusiasm from the colonization, there is also a sign of showing sympathy. In Země dokořán (A Country Wide Open) by Bohumil Říha the childlike idyll without any signs of disputability is being created. The most distinct opposition to Boží duha and Adelheid is presented in the novel Nástup (Line Up) (1951) by Václav Řezáč. In this work dominates he schematization in determination of German and Czech people?s qualities. Germans are expelled and Czech colonialists can happily cultivate their possessions. Boží duha represents a completely different grasp of the issue of expulsion and thus surpasses the contemporary context. Adelheid belongs to the broad group of works that were created in the sixties and which were able tore act more freely to the binding of works created in the fifties. Space is an important narratological category and is being determined by the mutual relations with other categories of narration, especially with time and characters. Constituted space in artistic texts is perceived in their interpretation as a significant category of literary texts. Analysis of following novelettes points out to the meaning of areas out of which one comes out. Areas form the identity and behavior of people. Just the differences of the initial areas result in the fact that the reader perceives Lotman?s spatial conception of ?We? and ?They? of particular characters in a different way. For some characters the border between ?We? and ?They? is unsurpassable, while others pass freely through. The significance of these works and their overlap into the present is caused by the fact that they work with the notions of regret and forgiveness. Without them it is not possible to overcome barriers.
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